Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
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2018-19 Travel Grants
Funded by AIPS Unrestricted Funds
Mashail Malik
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Stanford University
Conference Name: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Conference Dates: August 29-September 1, 2019
Title of Paper: Social Identification and Political Accountability: Respect as a Club Good in Karachi, Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Asifa Jahangir
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of the Punjab
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-20, 2019
Title of Paper: Kabul Peacemaking Process: Role of Pakistan and its Concerns
Paper Abstract Final Report
Usmaan Farooqui
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Conference Name: Midwest Political Science Association 77th Annual Conference
Conference Dates: April 4-7, 2019
Title of Paper: The Neutral State: Political Performances and Knowledge Practices in Karachi’s Waterscape
Paper Abstract Final Report
Minahil Asim
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated lnstitution: University of California-Davis
Conference Name: American Education Research Association Annual Conference
Conference Dates: April 4-8, 2019
Title of Paper: Strengthening Local Governance of Schools - Evidence from Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Mian Adnan Ahmad
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution:
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: The Journey Within (feature)
Paper Abstract Final Report
Yaqoob Khan Bangash
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution:
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: The Punjab under Law: The Development of the Judiciary in the Punjab in the 19th Century
Paper Abstract Final Report
Iqbal Akhtar
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Florida International University
Conference Name: 3rd International Conference on Islamic Banking and Finance
Conference Dates: November 5-6, 2019
Title of Paper: The Khoja Fiscal Model for Equitable Islamic Banking
Paper Abstract Final Report
Funded by CAORC
Syeda ShahBano Ijaz
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of California, San Diego
Conference Name: Canadian Political Science Association
Conference Dates: June 4-7, 2019
Title of Paper: Voters and Foreign Aid: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Christopher Candland
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Wellesley College
Conference Name: International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Educational Research and Practices
Conference Dates: August 5-8, 2019
Title of Paper: Thoughtful Use of Technology for Online Learning
Paper Abstract Final Report
Tariq Rahman
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of California, Irvine
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-20, 2019
Title of Paper: The Properties of Property: Patwaris, Digitization, and Land Records in Lahore
Paper Abstract Final Report
Elizabeth Lhost
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
Conference Dates: March 21-24, 2019
Title of Paper: Taking Marriage into Account: Legal Complaints and the Matter of Money in Early Twentieth-Century South Asia
Paper Abstract Final Report
Feisal Khan
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Conference Name: International Studies Association Annual Conference
Conference Dates: March 27-30, 2019
Title of Paper: Meet your new Islamic Banker, the same as your old Islamic Banker? Assessing Pakistan's rebooted Islamic Banking System
Paper Abstract Final Report
Safoora Arbab
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of California-Los Angeles
Conference Name: MLA International Symposium
Conference Dates: July 23-25, 2019
Title of Paper: Nonviolence, Anarchy and the New Story: The Resistance Literature of the Khudai Khidmatgers in the North-West Frontier of British India
Paper Abstract Final Report
Mehtab Khan
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: Copyright Law in Context: The Construction of 'Fair Use' in South Asia
Paper Abstract Final Report
Michael Hirsch
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Huston-Tillotson University
Conference Name: Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: On Doing Research in Pakistan: A Primer
Paper Abstract Final Report
Mustafa Menai
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: The Adab (Etiquette) of Guidance: Intimacy and Pedagogy between Two Urdu Master Poets
Paper Abstract Final Report
Rodrigo Chocano Paredes
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Indiana University
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: Media-worthy Traditions: Musical Collaboration, Nation Building, and Neoliberal Logics in Coke Studio Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
Zahra Hayat
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Conference Name: AAA/CASA Annual Meeting
Conference Dates: November 20-24, 2019
Title of Paper: Itineraries of Intellectual Property - The Story of Sovaldi
Paper Abstract Final Report
Zunaira Komal
Domestic Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of California, Davis
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2019
Title of Paper: Misrecognition of a Calamity: Azad Kashmir, Psychiatry and the Hold of the Secular
Paper Abstract Final Report
2019 AAS-in-Asia Conference
The scholars below hosted a panel on “Neoliberalism and Processes of Marginalisation in Pakistan’s Cities” at the 2019 AAS-in-Asia Conference from July 1 to 4, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Shermeen Bano
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of Management Technology
Title of Paper: The Cost of Transgender Recognition and Sexual Citizenship in Pakistan
Final Report
Amen Jaffer
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Title of Paper: Made from Waste: Labor, Life and Value in Lahore's Recycling Economy
Final Report
Danish Khan
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institution: University of Massachusetts
Title of Paper: Political Economy of Extended Urbanization in Punjab, Pakistan: Infrastructure Development, Dispossession and Accumulation
Final Report
Nida Kirmani
International Travel Grant
Affiliated Institutions: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Panel Organizer and Discussant
Final Report